Return of the Blog!

I haven't posted an entry on this particular blog since November, when I said that I was going to start posting entries on this blog more often.

Ahem.

Here's what happened, partly: Something personal came up in November, and I put a lot of things on the backburner. Things such as NaNoWriMo, blogging, vlogging, and even videomaking in general.

Since then, I've been getting back into the swing of those things. I've made a few more episodes of Miscellanea, posted a couple of vlogs and started work on some other projects.


I'm still not sure if vlogging (I still hate that word) will be a regular thing, but I feel better about it than I did in November. I just don't want to make vlogs that are just me talking into the camera about what I've done since my last vlog. I think it will be an occasional thing, something I do when I have something to rant about or an update on a project or something. (If you're counting 'somethings,' that sentence contained three.




I will continue to make episodes of Miscellanea, although I've gotten sidetracked form that recently. I'm working on a few episodes right now. The ones I've got going right now are mostly food related, but there will be more soon that concern other topics.

I'm also working on recutting and revising a video documentary I made in 2008 for Banned Books Week. That will take a lot of work, but I'm very much looking forward to it.

I'm working on other things as well, some video related, some not, but those are the main things that will be affecting my YouTube channel in the next few months.

I really hate the word 'vlog.'

What Happened to October?

Wow, October seemed to go by pretty fast. The latest episode of Miscellanea was uploaded during the first week of the month, then my video camera stopped working. I went on vacation the next week, and the week after that kind of flew by. I was sick for about half a week and I got better a few days before Halloween. I only uploaded one video during the month, and I didn't post any entries on this blog at all.

November is going to be different. I'm participating in NaNoWriMo again this year. I participated in 2007 and met the goal. I started it last year, but I didn't really get into it, and I gave up on it after a week or two. This year I'm excited about it, as I've mentioned in my vlog. That's right, I'm vlogging now. I frickin' hate that word, but it's popular, people online generally know what it means, and it's hard to avoid using it. It's interesting to note, however, that while 'blog' is recognized as a valid word by many spell check programs, 'vlog' tends not to be. I suppose that will change before too long. I digress.

The vlog is starting as a video log of this year's NaNoWriMo, but it may continue after the month of November. The main factors that that is dependent on are my comfort level with vlogging after NaNoWriMo, and whether I feel I have anything to ramble at a camera about. I'm actually kid of enjoying it. It's different from making videos like the Miscellanea series. I don't like it nearly as much as doing that kind of work, but it doesn't take nearly as much time, and it's more fun than I had expected. Here are my first two vlogs:





I wasn't expecting much of a response to these, but I have already gotten some feedback from various sources. I'll probably make one every few days during the month of November.